Pleurothallis xanthella Luer 1975 SUBGENUS Specklinia SECTION Muscariae Luer 1986
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Yellowish Pleurothallis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations of 450 to 650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing and cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a 1" [2.5 cm] long, exceeding the leaf, fascile, successively single flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"The bases of the little oval leaves which taper into indistinct petioles are supported by many times shorter secondary stems. The fascicle of successively appearing flowers is produced at the apex of a hairlike peduncle about twice as long as the leaf. The yellow-orange flowers are proportionately large for the plant. The sepals are striped with purple and carinate, the petals are spatulate and laciniate, and the entire surface of the oblong lip is microscopically verruculose, as if "beaded" with large red and yellow cells." Luer 1975
Synonyms Andreettaea xanthella (Luer) A.Doucette First published in Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1): 9 (2022; Muscarella xanthella (Luer) Luer 2006; Specklinia xanthella (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Selbyana 1(3): 300, f. 85. Luer 1975 Drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Lindleyana 16(4): 260. Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Specklinia xanthella;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella xanthella
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Muscarella xanthella drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Muscarella xanthella photo fide;
Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 8(1):9 Doucette 2022 as Andreettaea xanthella
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